White-naped Jay / Cyanocorax cyanopogon
White-naped Jay
SCI Name:
Protonym: Corvus cyanopogon ReiseBrasil. 2 p.137
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cyanocorax
Taxonomy Code: whnjay1
Type Locality: Rio Cachoeira [a headwater of the Rio Ilheos, eastern Baia].
Author: zu Wied-Neuwied
Publish Year: 1821
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CYANOCORAX
(Corvidae; Ϯ Plush-crested Jay C. chrysops) Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; κοραξ korax, κορακος korakos raven, crow < κρωζω krōzō to croak; "XIX. Fam. Garrulidae. ... Cyanocorax: Corvus pileatus col. 57. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Cyanocorax Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 19, part 10, col. 975. Type, by monotypy, Corvus pileatus Temminck = Pica chrysops Vieillot." (Blake in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 220) (see Cyanocitta).
Synon. Argurocitta, Calocitta, Cissilopha, Coronideus, Cyanocorvus, Cyanurus, Henocitta, Protocitta, Psilorhinus, Uroleuca, Xanthocitta, Xanthoura.
cyanopogon
Gr. κυανος kuanos dark-blue; πωγων pōgōn, πωγωνος pōgōnos beard.
Cyanopogon
(Trochilidae; syn. Calothorax † Lucifer Hummingbird C. lucifer) Specific name Ornismya cyanopogon Lesson, 1829 (= syn. Calothorax lucifer); "Mellisugeæ. ... 1596. Lucifer, Less. - a. Cyanopogon, Reich. - b. Cora, Reich. - c. Elisa, Reich." (Bonaparte 1854 (nom. nud.)); "* CALOTHORAX, G. R. Gr. 1840. Lucifers, Less. 1832. Callithorax, Agass. (Trochilus lucifers, Sw.) ... 322. = Lucifer, Reichenb. 1854. "Cyanopogon, Reichenb." Pr. B. 1854?" (G. Gray 1855); "Cyanopogon G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 140 (Appendix). Type, by original designation, Trochilus lucifers Sw. = Cynanthus lucifer Swainson, 1827." (JAJ 2020).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)